Celebrity Playboy cover girls

Dani Mathers

Dani Mathers is Playboy's 2015 Playmate of the Year. Over the course of her career, Mathers has appeared in numerous films including "Neighbors" and "Furious 7," and has had a recurring role on CBS’s "The Bold and the Beautiful." Mathers is Playboy’s 56th Playmate of the Year. Playboy named its first Playmate of the Year, Ellen Stratton, in 1960.

Linda Evans

"Dynasty" actress Linda Evans has said she agreed to have nude photos her husband took of her put in Playboy in 1971 because they were strapped for cash, but she liked working with the magazine so much she jumped at the chance to do it again as a cover girl in 1982.
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Lindsay Lohan

The starlet launched her career revamp with a cover shoot for Playboy in their January/February 2012 issue.
“Knowing yourself and your body is so important," she told the mag. "Because it gives you confidence, and in life, women need confidence. It’s a very male-dominated world to begin with, so knowing yourself and being comfortable with your body is an important thing for me as a woman."

Daisy Lowe

Gavin Rossdale's love child, model Daisy Lowe was featured in the Sept. 2011 issue of Playboy.
She's used to a different type of modeling though. Her past gigs were for Chanel, Burberry and Marc Jacobs. This spread helped skyrocket her sex appeal.
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Bree Olson

Charlie Sheen's porn star girlfriend Bree Olson turned her time in Sheen's spotlight into the August 2011 cover of Playboy.
Considering her past work, posing nude in Playboy was a no brainer to make her five minutes of fame last a little longer. Other celebs had a little more trouble dropping their duds.

Kelly Bensimon

"Real Housewives of New York City" star and former model Kelly Bensimon took it all off for the March 2009 issue of Playboy.
She was a woman on a mission.
"I literally drank beer - Corona - and ate chicken wings for two weeks!" the Manhattan mother of two told US Weekly. "I wanted to show my real body, not some worked out, over-toned body."

Marilyn Monroe

The world's most renowned sexpot, Marilyn Monroe, faced heavy criticism for wearing a dress with a neckline cut almost to her navel at the Miss America Parade. An image from the event was later used on the cover of the first edition of Playboy in December 1953 with a nude photo of the screen siren inside the magazine.
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Drew Barrymore

Former kid star Drew Barrymore has never been shy about stripping down, and did just that for the January 1995 issue of Playboy.
She probably wanted to show fans that she's not a kid anymore.
Point taken.
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Shannen Doherty

It came as no surprise when bad girl Shannen Doherty did a spread for the magazine in March 1994. She was featured a second time in the Dec. 2003 issue with a 10-page pictorial. But by then, nobody really cared.
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Farrah Fawcett

After refusing to appear nude in films or magazines throughout the 70's and 80's, Farrah Fawcett apparently changed her mind and shocked everyone with a spread in the December 1995 issue of Playboy - which went on to sell 4 million copies worldwide! She posed for a second time in the July 1997 issue at the age of 50, delivering another top seller.
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Amanda Beard

Sure, they've gotten female college athletes by the bushel to strip down, but when Olympian Amanda Beard showed the world what she was hiding under that swimsuit in the July 2007 Playboy, Playboy reached the mountaintop.
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